Love Lessons
If you find yourself in love with someone
who does not love you, be gentle with yourself. There is
nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest
in the other person’s heart.
If you find someone else in love with you and you don't
love him/her, feel honored that love came and called at
your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return.
Do not take advantage, do not cause pain.
How you deal with love is how you deal with you, and all our
hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways
are different.
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and Infatuation)
If you fall in love with another, and he/she falls in love
with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to
reclaim it or to assess blame, let it go. There is a reason
and there is a meaning. You will know in time.
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you.
All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when
it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing,
then reach out and give it away.
Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you.
Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to
the world around you in anyway you can. There is where many
lovers go wrong. Having been so long without love, they
understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as
empty places that will be filled by love, and they begin
to look at love as something that flows to them rather than
from them.
The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, but
as their love cools, they revert to seeing their love as
need. They cease to be someone who generates love and instead
become someone who seeks love.
They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift, and
that it can be made to grow only by giving it away.
(Read Related : Love
Questions)
Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its
own time, its own seasons, and its own reason for coming
and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it
into saying.
You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away
when it comes to you. But if it chooses to leave from your
heart or from the heart of your lover, there is nothing
you can do and there is nothing you should do.
Love always has been and always will be a mystery.
Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life.
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